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why, wouldn't it give a dj a lot more creative and artistic flexibility and freedom if he could just put on a muzik mag mix cd and spend the balance of his set playing with different effects on the mixer? i mean, it's not about beatmatching....
just saying.
you could put an Emfire release on for 2 minutes and you would be a sleep before it finishes - Chunky
it's RA. they'd blow their load all over some stupid 20 minute loop of a snare if it had a quirky flange setting. - Tiddles
^^^exactly why it is completey freakin lame to use a laptop. what talent deost that take.....u might as well throw a prerecorded cd in your cd player mate...then u can party all you want LOFL
its a joke. any moron can dj now.. the true definition of a dj is going extinct with all this laptop garbage
You know what? I used to think like you, but i came to the conclusion that the only reason i felt like laptop sets were cheating was because i had spent all these years teaching myself to mix on 1200's by ear and im not just talking beatmatching here, learning all the nuances of the music and how to eq and build sets, tricks etc, etc.... and i thought this abelton and traktor wave would make the art in general obsolete, but no i believe the stuff you can't teach any monkey like style and programming definitely make the dj. not the beatmatching, sorry. Style shines through and through and through.... fake instant dj clones sound like what they are. Real dj's make a unique experience of continous music regardless of the medium nowadays. I thought this digital revolution in dj'ing was awkward at first but now i have faith in it.
well he's been playing music for so long he's deaf and can't hear what he's doing anyway. He is a great musician, just needs to stay away from the decks.
I assume he just recorded the set beforehand and then twiddled with the knobs while prancing around like a complete twat !
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This release was mastered direct from vinyl at the request of the DJ and as such features natural sound characteristics of this medium such as record surface noise.
In the end it depends on what kinda DJ you are, just like any other artisan or craftsman. Do you want to kick back and be a lazy ass, let your machine do all the work and press some buttons to layer on some effects, or do you really want to work it and push the music?
You have people like Sasha and other laptop DJs doing what they do, and you have people like Hawtin and Zabiela doing what they do. And they all use laptops but it's a world of a difference.
It's just a shame that Sasha is resting on his laurels and taking the easy way out. Sure he was 'one of the few' who took up Ableton 'cos he's so forward-thinking, but look at what he does now, probably gives him more time to do lines off the table.
And if you looked at the way Digweed plays and how long he's been pushing forward the music and how long it took him to move to CDR, I doubt if he'll just stand there and push buttons when he moves fully to laptop.
And I don't agree that having laptops let you do more. More of what?? DJs have been mixing on more than two decks for ages, making long transitions, playing one beat, layering on shit. Doesn't anyone remember techno? Now that's hard work behind the decks. How much more do you want to do with laptops before your set sounds like a cacophony instead of a symphony?
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Originally posted by Hoff
a powerful and insane mothership that occasionally comes commanded by the real ones .. then suck us and makes us appear in the most magical of all lands
Originally posted by m1sT3rL
Oh. My. God. James absolutely obliterated the island tonight. The last time there was so much destruction, Obi Wan Kenobi had to take a seat on the Falcon after the Death Star said "hi and bye" to Leia's homeworld.
I got pics and video. But I will upload them in the morning. I need to smoke this nice phat joint and just close my eyes and replay the amazingness in my head.
In the end it depends on what kinda DJ you are, just like any other artisan or craftsman. Do you want to kick back and be a lazy ass, let your machine do all the work and press some buttons to layer on some effects, or do you really want to work it and push the music?
You have people like Sasha and other laptop DJs doing what they do, and you have people like Hawtin and Zabiela doing what they do. And they all use laptops but it's a world of a difference.
It's just a shame that Sasha is resting on his laurels and taking the easy way out. Sure he was 'one of the few' who took up Ableton 'cos he's so forward-thinking, but look at what he does now, probably gives him more time to do lines off the table.
And if you looked at the way Digweed plays and how long he's been pushing forward the music and how long it took him to move to CDR, I doubt if he'll just stand there and push buttons when he moves fully to laptop.
And I don't agree that having laptops let you do more. More of what?? DJs have been mixing on more than two decks for ages, making long transitions, playing one beat, layering on shit. Doesn't anyone remember techno? Now that's hard work behind the decks. How much more do you want to do with laptops before your set sounds like a cacophony instead of a symphony?
exactly right. its the lazy way out and lets them be more blitzed out of there minds.
digweed works the harderst behind the decks imo. hope he doesnt swithc to laptop. i willbe devistated
Deadmau5 - At Play: 10 Full Length DJ Friendly Unmixed Tracks (200
01. Vanishing Point
02. Sex, Lies & Audiotape
03. Cocktail Queen
04. Faxing Berlin
05. Hey Baby
06. Turning Point
07. This Is The Hook
08. 1981
09. Dr Funkenstein
10. Afterhours
this kid is just digging himself an even bigger hole with these kind of statments, it just shows how naive and how far up his own arse he is, he really needs to stop mouthing off like he's gods gift to the world. Like anything there are many things that could be said to put him back in his place but he really needs to learn his own lessons, he will look back one day and realise how stupid he is being but fuck its funny to watch him shoot himself in the foot.
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